Nick Nolte Quotes & Sayings

“The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.”

“You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars.”

“You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.”

“No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.”

“I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you.”

“I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.”

“Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.”

“If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.”

“We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.”

“Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.”